Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR YOUNG CONDUCTORS
52nd Competition
The winner of the 52nd Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors is Yuki Kakiuchi.
Gergely Madaras won the Internet Audience vote (ARTE Live Web) and Stamatia Karampini won the Prize of the Public.
The Grand Prize is endowed with 12 000 € and possible collaborations with the following orchestras :
- London Philharmonic Orchestra (UK)- Japan philharmonic orchestra (Japan)
- Dresdner Philharmonie (Germany)
- Brussels philharmonic (Belgium)
- Prague Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic)
- Orchestre national d'Ile de France (France)
- Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Australia)
- Orchestra of Opera North (UK)
- Sinfonieorchester Münster (Germany)
- Orchestre national de Bordeaux Aquitaine dans le cadre des Estivales de Musique au Coeur du Médoc (France)
- Wiener KammerOrchester (Austria)
- Orchestre de Besançon-Montbéliard Franche-Comté (France)
- Ontario Philharmonic (Canada)
- Hong Kong Sinfonietta (China)
- Orchestre de Dijon Bourgogne (France)
- Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva (Israel)
- Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino (Italia)
- St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (Russia)
- Slovak Philharmonic orchestra (Slovakia)
We thank orchestras for their collaboration.
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Jury of the 52nd Competition:
- Sir Andrew Davis (président), music director of the Lyric opera of Chicago- Michael Jarrell, composer
- Anne Midgette, classical music critic -The Washington Post
- David Pickard, General Director of the Glyndebourne Festival
- Michel Tabachnik, music director of the Brussels philharmonic
- Fabrizio Ventura, music director of the Münster Opera and symphony orchestra
- Paul Watkins, music director of the English chamber Orchestra
The selected candidates for the 52nd competition were:
- Luc Bonnaillie (France)- Emmanuel Calef (France)
- Young-Sun Choi (South Korea)
- Paul Fitzsimon (Australia)
- Yi Huang (China)
- Sho Itoh (Japan)
- Joongbae Jee (South Korea)
- Yuki Kakiuchi (Japan)
- Stamatia Karampini (Greece)
- Tam Gu Lee (South Korea)
- Gergely Madaras (Hungary)
- Hideaki Matsumura (Japan)
- Heejung Park (South Korea)
- Jamie Alexander Phillips (England)
- Vincent Renaud (France)
- Mathieu Romano (France)
- Tomohiro Seyama (Japan)
- Yu Sugimoto (Japan)
- Yuki Tanaka (Japan)
- Chuang Tung-Chieh (Taiwan)
Download the 2011 programme here and regulations here.
Presentation of the competition
Download the complete list of laureates here
Established in 1951 by the Besançon International Music Festival, the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors soon became the most prestigious event of the kind. It is one of the great competition in France supported by the French Ministry of Culture. It has been held every year until 1992, and then every 2 years.
The Conducting Competition is organized with the help of:
- the French Ministry of Culture
- the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Institut Français
- the City of Besançon
- the Conseil regional de Franche-Comté
- the Departement du Doubs
- the Chinese Musicians’ Association
- the Central Conservatory of Beijing
- the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal’s *
- the Hochschule für musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin
Alexander Gibson, Sergiu Comissiona, Gerd Albrecht, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Zdenek Macal, Jiri Kout, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Hubert Soudant, Sylvain Cambreling or Yutaka Sado are some of the most prestigious winners of this Conducting Competition.
* In collaboration with the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Music and the programme of research in orchestral conducting managed by professor Paolo Bellomia, supported by the Fonds canadien pour l'innovation and the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (Quebec).